Memorizing GM Games

I am a beginner player wondering if memorizing GM Games would help me to understand positional play better.

If the games are classical high quality games, yes you can do it, but I wouldn't bother with modern games.

@bb_gum : the trick is that you usually need to understand what's going on to memorize the game (at least that was my experience).

I just recently watched part of a video on YouTube by IM Pruess about it. He has 3 in the series I think.

He suggested shorter games to begin with, which makes sense, and to get them from well annotated collections, which will help with the understanding. His first example is pretty trivial, a 7 or 8 mover from the Alekhine where black resigned after losing a knight.

Not sure how well it helps though. Can't really hurt to memorize some games.

Thank you everyone.

I have memorized the Morphy Opera game.  It is rather short, almost all of the moves are forcing, and demonstrates important opening principles.  I also play the scotch so this was an easy choice!  

Memorizing games to understand positional ideas makes sense, and there are some model games that demonstrate key strategic themes.  I can see, for example, memorizing the Fischer-Gadia game as a good demonstration of how to play against the beliaslavky hole.  

I would pick pawn structures from the openings you play, and then select model games that highlight the important strategic themes.  As a beginner that might take some real research and hard work, but it couldn't hurt.